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Ernest Rutherford

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New Zealand-born physicist (1871–1937) who spent most of his career in Britain, first at Manchester and later at the Cavendish in Cambridge. He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on radioactivity, then promptly did his most famous physics: the 1911 nuclear model of the atom, and later the first deliberate transmutation of one element into another. Famously plain-spoken and loud; reportedly capable of fogging photographic plates with his voice alone.

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